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Women and Bikes Panel
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room 216
Women in advocacy: Hear their perpective on transportation cycling and advocacy. Women in the USA account for 20% of all bike commuters, yet in countires such as Japan, China and the Netherlands women account for over half of transportation cyclists What gives? Join us for a passionate discussion.
Our Panel
Erika Fick: Climate Fellow for Environmental Defense Fund
Kelly Martin: Co-founder Bicycle Bitchen , former board member Bicycle Kitchen
Dhyana Quintanar: Bike Coordinator of Mexico City
Aurisha Smolarski Waters: Outreach Coordinator of LACBC
Our Moderator
Liz Elliott: Executive Director of C.I.C.L.E., Cyclists Inciting Change thru LIVE Exchange
Bios
Liz Elliott, Executive Director and founding member of C.I.C.L.E, avidly promotes cycling as an important way to connect with community and care for the earth and all of its inhabitants. Proir to this, she enjoyed a variety of professional experiences that ranged from operating a rural grocery store on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation to managing a luxury travel corporation. A long involvement with political, social, and environmental justice issues have led her to serve as a Montana Democratic Precinct District Representative and to volunteer with the Community Supported Agriculture program. Elliott majored in theater arts at San Francisco State University. She is a League Certified cycling instructor.
Visit: www.CICLE.org
Email: Liz@cicle.org
323-478-0060
Erica Fick is a recent Urban and Environmental Policy graduate from Occidental College where she started the “Bring Your Own Bike” (B.Y.O.B.) club on campus and helped organize frequent social rides and events. She wrote her senior thesis on bike culture and politics in Los Angeles. She currently works as a Climate Fellow for Environmental Defense Fund where she’s helping implement LA’s clean energy policies. She is an avid cyclist in the LA’s urban environment and rides a 1986 turquoise Trek.
(213) 223-2190
Kelly Marie Martin Co-founded Bicycle Bitchen, a women and transgender night at the Bicycle Kitchen, a non-profit DIY bicycle repair and maintenance education collective; to which she is also a former board member. She has an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and currently works as an art director at Voyage Media and teaches as an adjunct. She is a multi-talented sound artist, director and musician, with her passion being old timey music and interdisciplinary/conceptual/projects. She is completing a book of 4x5 portraits of her bike buddies called "Bike It: Portraits of My Bicipandilla" that will be available in April.
Visit: www.TripleChickenFoot.com
www.myspace.com/kellyndavid
Dhyana Quintanar is the Coordinator of the Bicycle Mobility Strategy for Mexico City. She has been coordinating the planning and execution of various initiatives to promote cycling as a mode of transport through infrastructure and cultural changes. Prior to this position, she was the Director of Mobility and Urban Development at the Center for Sustainable Transport of Mexico. Dhyana holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She is an avid cyclists and commutes to work by bike.
Aurisha Smolarski Waters is the bicycle outreach coordinator for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition as well as a former board member. Prior to this she was a volunteer at the Bicycle Kitchen for several years, a non-profit DIY bicycle repair and maintenance education collective. An accomplished musician, she also teaches violin at Harmony Project, a non-profit that offers music lessons to low-income youth and in her spare time is pursuing a masters' degree in Psychology at the University of Antioch.
Visit: LA-BIKE.org
213-629-2142
Room 216
Women in advocacy: Hear their perpective on transportation cycling and advocacy. Women in the USA account for 20% of all bike commuters, yet in countires such as Japan, China and the Netherlands women account for over half of transportation cyclists What gives? Join us for a passionate discussion.
Our Panel
Erika Fick: Climate Fellow for Environmental Defense Fund
Kelly Martin: Co-founder Bicycle Bitchen , former board member Bicycle Kitchen
Dhyana Quintanar: Bike Coordinator of Mexico City
Aurisha Smolarski Waters: Outreach Coordinator of LACBC
Our Moderator
Liz Elliott: Executive Director of C.I.C.L.E., Cyclists Inciting Change thru LIVE Exchange
Bios
Liz Elliott, Executive Director and founding member of C.I.C.L.E, avidly promotes cycling as an important way to connect with community and care for the earth and all of its inhabitants. Proir to this, she enjoyed a variety of professional experiences that ranged from operating a rural grocery store on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation to managing a luxury travel corporation. A long involvement with political, social, and environmental justice issues have led her to serve as a Montana Democratic Precinct District Representative and to volunteer with the Community Supported Agriculture program. Elliott majored in theater arts at San Francisco State University. She is a League Certified cycling instructor.
Visit: www.CICLE.org
Email: Liz@cicle.org
323-478-0060
Erica Fick is a recent Urban and Environmental Policy graduate from Occidental College where she started the “Bring Your Own Bike” (B.Y.O.B.) club on campus and helped organize frequent social rides and events. She wrote her senior thesis on bike culture and politics in Los Angeles. She currently works as a Climate Fellow for Environmental Defense Fund where she’s helping implement LA’s clean energy policies. She is an avid cyclist in the LA’s urban environment and rides a 1986 turquoise Trek.
(213) 223-2190
Kelly Marie Martin Co-founded Bicycle Bitchen, a women and transgender night at the Bicycle Kitchen, a non-profit DIY bicycle repair and maintenance education collective; to which she is also a former board member. She has an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and currently works as an art director at Voyage Media and teaches as an adjunct. She is a multi-talented sound artist, director and musician, with her passion being old timey music and interdisciplinary/conceptual/projects. She is completing a book of 4x5 portraits of her bike buddies called "Bike It: Portraits of My Bicipandilla" that will be available in April.
Visit: www.TripleChickenFoot.com
www.myspace.com/kellyndavid
Dhyana Quintanar is the Coordinator of the Bicycle Mobility Strategy for Mexico City. She has been coordinating the planning and execution of various initiatives to promote cycling as a mode of transport through infrastructure and cultural changes. Prior to this position, she was the Director of Mobility and Urban Development at the Center for Sustainable Transport of Mexico. Dhyana holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She is an avid cyclists and commutes to work by bike.
Aurisha Smolarski Waters is the bicycle outreach coordinator for the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition as well as a former board member. Prior to this she was a volunteer at the Bicycle Kitchen for several years, a non-profit DIY bicycle repair and maintenance education collective. An accomplished musician, she also teaches violin at Harmony Project, a non-profit that offers music lessons to low-income youth and in her spare time is pursuing a masters' degree in Psychology at the University of Antioch.
Visit: LA-BIKE.org
213-629-2142
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